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    I just read that fennel should be planted alone, as its' root secretes chemicals which inhibit growth of other plants. Have you found that to be true?

    It's just that I sowed mine in a raised bed which has a whole myriad of stuff planted in it, strawberries and spinach and chard and purslane being the closest neightbours, and I don't want to move it if it's not really necessary.

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    Sorry, I really don't know the answer to this............. I just thought that Flo had done something terrible while I had a night off and this was to be her punishment. I was about to start a campaign group. 'Save the Fennel One'!!

    Slopes off to work.........
    Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you are probably right.
    Edited: for typo, thakns VC

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    • #3
      it's a bit early for fennel really, it has a tendency to bolt in the sun - HA!! - or if it's hot. In fact, it just has a tendency to bolt full-stop, but less likely to if it's sown in June...
      no idea about the death to other plants thing though sorry....

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      • #4
        If it was true then wouldn't there be some advice on the seed packet?

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        • #5
          Nothing in any of my gardening books suggests Fennel is detrimental to other crops. I am trying Fennel for the first time. I got some May sown seedlings in the blowaway and by June I hope to have a space for them.
          P

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          • #6
            Afraid I don't know what it said on the packet, as I got the seeds from a generous grape - *waves at BroadRipple* - but once I read about the incompatibility (with everything!), I hoped it might be one of those things that could be true under so and so conditions and lucky me had somehow escaped. Or something.

            I wonder if grape Florence Fennel knew she was considered, by some, to be toxic to everything in her radius

            And here's a link to one of the fennel articles I read: https://urbangardensolutions.wordpre...dening-method/
            Last edited by jdlondon; 16-05-2012, 08:53 AM. Reason: added link

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            • #7
              I've just looked at my pack of fennel seeds and there's nothing on there that suggests planting them away from other things.
              If it comes from a plant, eat it. If it was made in a plant, don't!!

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              • #8
                I planted my Florence fennel next to my swedes last year. It was my first time for fennel and I had the best swedes I've ever had, just finished eating them.

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                • #9
                  Ok, good, I'll just leave them where they are. Thanks, all.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by greenishfing View Post
                    I planted my Florence fennel next to my swedes last year. It was my first time for fennel and I had the best swedes I've ever had, just finished eating them.
                    Hmm, I planted some of my swedes next to the fennel last year and they grew to twice the size of the ones I planted in a different part of my allotment and they tasted great, too. The celeriac planted on the other side of the fennel, however, was a very different story...

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by singleseeder View Post
                      Sorry, I really don't know the answer to this............. I just thought that Flo had done something terrible while I had a night off and this was to be her punishment. I was about to start a campaign group. 'Save the Fennel One'!!

                      Slopes off to work.........
                      Aww, thank you friend SS I'd missed this (that's unusual for me, I'm told I don't miss a trick).

                      Originally posted by jdlondon View Post
                      I wonder if grape Florence Fennel knew she was considered, by some, to be toxic to everything in her radius
                      I resemble that remark JD and my radius, thank you, is no concern of yours
                      Granny on the Game in Sheffield

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